Life

An incredible revelation of someone so completely lost that even the concept of escape is permanently erased. From the start of this disastrous episode it was obvious that she has never expected such a bizarre string of events. This analysis shows the outlines of what is left. Only the frame and pieces of herself with her son in hopeful motion to…

A cooperatively owned Twitter is the only way that I can see morality and ethics returning to a full media channel. We need this desperately. As described here it could work. Obviously this must host valid stories as well as conflicting viewpoints. We are probably too far gone to have this happen as all members would need to accept flagging of…

An excellent description of the real meaning in life. It’s the very smallness that brings meaning. It’s the absurdity that supports rationality by constantly reminding us how fragile our logical world really is. But we are on the edge of challenging reality with the ability to build our own realities. We are at the first stage of rebuilding our…

A very well written and honest account. I’ve come to realize how hard this is to understand for the dominant American culture. Our national culture is inherently superficial. That’s has been a problem for a long time and the realization of that has produced much of our art. We have never really gotten past The Ugly American who was, and still is, a…

Your article is very good. I’m not sure why but you’ve managed to say what really matters in a way that is clear and not buried in self promotion. Perhaps that is the key. No position is valid if it is only a flag saying look at me and how right I am. And no position is valid that refuses to recognize the suffering that it would cause for others…

I tried really hard after reading this and a number of the responses. I clicked on and came back three times. It makes no sense to add to the jumble of words, I told myself. But this is a part of the problem we need to solve and it is our responsibility to solve it or die trying. And I’m not feeling good about this.

The Song Not Sung of Others

• This is hard
• And scary
• The map has faded and the path is gone
• We can see the mountains and remember the river
• But we always followed the map

Shit is Getting Realer by the Day

Yes, you have definitely identified a range of very difficult issues for which we have no good answer. While it certainly wasn’t pleasurable to read there is always joy in cogent and insightful writing on a very large and complex topic. And despite some of the…

Yes, despite all the pain, anxiety, and bullshit that should be terminal, we stumble into happiness. Maybe those are the ice cream cone moments of life but you get more of them as you get older. And I can appreciate your struggle with your daughters hearing loss. To you it’s the ‘my god what will she do and how will she survive’ parental fear but it…

This is a thought that will stay with me. We all may need to borrow each other’s Will to Live in the months ahead but we can always share each other’s humor. It’s a shit storm so anything goes. The people who caused this honestly have no idea why they did it. Technology is moving us on to an emerging world that doesn’t need the shit they think…